Automation Architect

About the role

Reports into Ansira's AI Center of Excellence, based in Colombia. Leads the discovery, design, and deployment of mission‑critical AI and automation workflows across the business, and manages a group of AI and automation developers. Partners closely with leadership, business stakeholders, the broader engineering organization, and the automation engineering team to turn business needs into scalable, well‑governed automated solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery and opportunity assessment across business functions to identify high‑value automation targets.
• Own end‑to‑end architecture and technical design for automation and AI workflows, spanning multiple enterprise systems.
• Set and enforce engineering standards — testing, observability, deployment, and governance — for the automation program.
• Manage and mentor a team of AI and automation developers, setting technical direction and reviewing designs.
• Translate leadership and stakeholder priorities into technical specifications, and technical trade‑offs back into business terms.
• Design integration patterns connecting AI agents, RPA/automation platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Partner with engineering, business stakeholders, and automation engineers to validate and prioritize solutions.
• Own vendor/platform evaluation input and reusable component standards for the automation practice.

Required profile

• 5‑7 years designing and leading automation/AI system architecture across multiple enterprise systems.
• Programming experience in any coding language.
• Demonstrated system design experience.
• Strong software development practices (testing, CI/CD, code quality standards).
• Working experience designing and deploying agentic workflows.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
• Proficiency in English.

Required skills

• Claude, Claude Code, Glean (AI agent tools).
• UiPath, n8n, Zapier (automation / low‑code / no‑code platforms).
• APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, MCP, SQL, SaaS integrations.